System Transformation: Be Careful or You Will Not Get What You Asked For

System Transformation: Be Careful or You Will Not Get What You Asked For
David Pedersen and Larry Goldberg have navigated the mine fields of re-inventing, adding improvements to, or significantly changing the capabilities of legacy systems. To avoid unsuccessful outcomes, they have devised a decision model for system transformation which they illustrate and explicate in this Article. This is a must read for all involved in adapting legacy systems.

Larry Goldberg

Larry Goldberg is Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners International, LLC (KPI), has forty years of experience in building technology based companies on three continents, and in which the focus was rules-based technologies and applications. Commercial applications in which he played a primary architectural role include such diverse domains as healthcare, supply chain, and property & casualty insurance.
Larry is co-author of The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework linking Business and Technology (Auerbach, 2009), a co-editor of The Business Rule Revolution: Running the Business the Right Way (HappyAbout.info 2007), is on the editorial board of www.BPMInstitute.org and is the Editorial Director of the BDM Bulletin, a monthly e-publication of the BPMInstitute.org.
Larry can be found at www.TheDecisionModel.com and looks forward to hearing from everyone with and interest in decision management, business rules, BDM, EDM, and BPM.